"A Galaxy Far Far Away"
It was 1977. George Lucas had written a script with the above line at the very beginning of the page. It was abstract, unimaginable in real life Filmmaking then. Only 20th Century Fox had a optical visual effects facility, but only for the inhouse films.
George with his ambitious project "Star Wars" reached to Douglas Trumbull, who was working with Steven Spielberg then for "Close Encounters of The Third Kind". He referred George to John Dykstra, who was trained in industrial design and had worked with Douglas on "Silent Running" movie... (More)
